Blouse



March 18, 1952 w. J. LEICHTER BLOUSE Filed NOV. 5, 1948 INVENTOR.

VV/LL/AM d LE/CHTEA BY m 750m A TTORA/EX Patented Mar. 18, 1952 UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE BLOUSE William J. Leichter, Bronx, N. Y.

Application November 5, 1948, Serial No. 58,509

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in blouses,especially ladies blouses, and it has for its object to provide a blousethat has embodied therein new, original and fashionable features.

Thus, the special object of this invention is to provide a ladys blousewith a cut-away portion to form an open space at the front or back ofsaid blouse, according to what may be desired.

The said open space may be square, oval, circular, diamond, triangular,or hexagonal shaped.

In the said open space may be inserted any chosen ornamental matters,such as a monogram, picture, or the like.

In order, however, further to embellish the appearance of said blouse,the said space with, for instance, a picture therein, is surrounded by aframe, which may be made of the same material as the blouse, or be of adifferent material, according to the color scheme chosen.

As the unique device, as set forth, is simple to make, the cost ofmanufacturing a blouse embodying the same, is relatively small.

With the above and other objects in view, this invention consists of thenovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts,hereinafter fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing forming part of this application, and in which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all views, andin which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of a blouse, partially open at thefront, and showing my devised construction.

Figure 2 is a rear elevational rear view of the blouse showing, however,a modification in the construction thereof.

Figure 3 is an elevational view of the inner side of the back of theblouse, with parts broken off.

Figures 4 and 5 are transverse sectional views taken, respectively, onlines 4-4 and 55 in Figure 3, and showing the portions only, intersectedby the section planes.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the numeral Ill indicates ablouse, having the rear panel portion thereof cut-away to provide anopening ll. Pieces of material l2, I3 and 14, preferably of the samekind as the blouse, are bent upon themselves to form channeled framemembers; the inwardly bent sides of the latter are stitched to theblouse in surrounding relation to the opening H, as shown in dottedlines at [6.

At the top a narrow piece of material I5 is integral with the back panelof the blouse forming with said back panel a channeled frame member,thereby completing a rectangular frame.

An ornamental piece of material, or member l8. such as a monogram, orpicture, may then be inserted into said frame by means of the channeledmembers constituting the latter; the said member 18 is held in place inany suitable manner, such as by snap fasteners l9, parts of which aredisposed on said member l8 and the counterparts within the channeledframe, whereby a snug fitting is made of said piece of material, ormember 18, with the display thereon, as the edges of the material aredisposed within the channeled frame member proper.

In order further to embellish the blouse, a frame 20, asshown in Figure2 may be fastened on to the outside of the blouse I0 and around theopening II, to give an enhanced effect to the beauty of the insertedmonogram l8, or the like.

The said frame 20 may be made of any suitable material, and consists offour folded strips secured to the outside of the back of the blousepanel in opposition to the strips providing the inner frame.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form, construction andarrangement of the several parts, as shown, within the scope of theappended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention, andI do not, therefore, wish to limit myself to the exact constructionshown and described herein.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is:

1. In a device of the class described, a blouse including a back panelprovided with a rectangular opening therein, a frame disposed on theinner face of the back panel in surrounding relation to said openingtherein, said frame including three pieces of material folded uponthemselves to provide channel members and secured to the rear paneladjacent the bottom and side edges of said opening, and a fourth pieceof material integral with the back panel folded upon itself to provide achannel member and extending along the upper edge of said opening, andan ornamental panel removably disposed within said frame.

2. The structure according to claim 1 together with a frame formed offour strips of material secured to the outer face of said panel insurrounding relation to said opening therein.

WILLIAM J. LEICHTER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,569,735 Florsheim Jan. 12, 19261,854,821 Barker Apr. 19, 1932 2,212,719 Prouty Aug. 2'7, 1940

